display

Pros:

• Very high contrast ratio (20,000:1 or greater, much higher than many modern LCDs and plasma displays.)


• High speed response


• Excellent Additive color, wide gamut and low black level limited only by external environment.


• Can display natively in almost any resolution and refresh rate


• Near zero color, saturation, contrast or brightness distortion. Excellent viewing angle.


• No input lag


• A reliable, proven display technology.

Cons:

• Large size and weight (a 40" unit weighs over 200lbs)


• Geometric distortion in non-flat CRTs


• Older CRTs are prone to burn-in.


• Warm up time required prior to peak luminance and proper color rendering.


• Greater power consumption than similarly sized displays, such as LCD.


• Screened devices are prone to moire effect at highest resolution (does not apply to triple-tube projection)


• Intolerant of damp conditions, with dangerous wet failure characteristics.


• Small risk of implosion (due to internal vacuum) if the picture tube is broken in aging sets.


• Use under Lower refresh rates causes noticeable flicker


• Internal lethally high voltages


• Flyback transformer produces characteristic high-pitched noise when close to set.


• Increasingly difficult to obtain models at HDTV resolutions, due to consumers' perception of antiquity.

[edit]LCD

Pros:

• Very compact and light


• Low power consumption


• No geometric distortion


• Rugged


• Little or no flicker depending on backlight

Cons:

• Low contrast ratio.


• Limited viewing angle. This causes color, saturation, contrast and brightness to vary, even within the intended viewing angle from mere variations in posture.


• Uneven backlighting in some monitors can cause brightness distortion, especially toward the edges.


• Slow response times, which cause smearing and ghosting artifacts (although many modern LCDs have response times of 8ms or less).


• Only has one native resolution. Displaying other resolutions requires a video scaler, which degrades image quality at lower resolutions.


• Fixed bit depth, many cheaper LCDs are incapable of truecolor.


• Input lag


• Somewhat more expensive than CRT


• Dead pixels are possible during manufacturing

[edit]Plasma

Main article: Plasma display

Pros:

• Compact and light


• High contrast ratios (10,000:1 or greater)


• High speed response


• Excellent color, wide gamut and low black level.


• Near zero color, saturation, contrast or brightness distortion. Excellent viewing angle.


• No geometric distortion


• Highly scalable, with less weight gain per increase in size (from less than 30 inches wide to the world's largest at 150 inches).

Cons:

• Large pixel pitch means either low resolution or a large screen


• Noticeable flicker when viewed at close range


• High operating temperature


• Somewhat more expensive than LCD


• High power consumption


• Only has one native resolution. Displaying other resolutions requires a video scaler, which degrades image quality at lower resolutions.


• Fixed bit depth


• Input lag


• Older PDPs are prone to burn-in


• Dead pixels are possible during manufacturing

[edit]Penetron

Main article: Penetron

Pros:

• See-through for transparent HUDs (although LCDs are also transparent, they are not self-lighting.)


• Very high contrast ratios.


• Extremely sharp.

Cons:

• Color displays are limited to about four tints.


• Orders of magnitude more expensive than the other display technologies listed here.